#  Five Questions with Brian Farrell 

 





July 16, 2025

 

 

     ![A milkweed beetle (Tetraopes pilosus) on its equally fuzzy sand milkweed hostplant (Asclepias arenariad) in the midwestern United States | photo by sangil kim ’15, Ph.D. ’23; student of professor farrell](/sites/g/files/omnuum6811/files/styles/hwp_16_9__480x270/public/2025-07/A%20milkweed%20beetle%20%28Tetraopes%20pilosus%29%20on%20its%20equally%20fuzzy%20sand%20milkweed%20hostplant%20%28Asclepias%20arenariad%29%20in%20the%20midwestern%20US_%20photo%20by%20sangil%20kim.jpeg?h=0471db5d&itok=w7jgXSPx) 

A milkweed beetle (Tetraopes pilosus) on its equally fuzzy sand milkweed hostplant (Asclepias arenariad) in the midwestern United States | photo by sangil kim ’15, Ph.D. ’23; student of Professor Farrell



 



 

Professor Brian D. Farrell was featured in [Harvard Magazine's Five Questions.](https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2025/07/five-questions-harvard-brian-farrell-beetles) Farrell, a curator of entomology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology, focuses on the coevolution of insects and plants, with a special emphasis on beetles. In the feature, he discusses beetles, biodiversity, and evolutionary change.



 

 

 



 

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